Real Madrid have done an incredible season winning the double with La Liga, and the Champions League. This was a very difficult task, because Los Blancos had not won La Liga in the last five years and they are the first team who proclaims for second time in a row Champions League winners. Now it’s the moment to evaluate the performance of the players during the season 2016-2017.
Danilo’s performance was quite poor in this season. In fact, since he arrived from Porto two years ago for an amount of €35M, he didn’t give the level that every Real Madrid supporter expected from him. The Brazilian right back has been several times in Zidane’s line-up this year but whenever he played, he showed a lot of doubts, committing important mistakes and proving that Carvajal must be Real Madrid’s right back for many years. We can also confirm, that Nacho has been many times playing in Danilo’s position when Carvajal was injured or suspended, showing that the French manager doesn’t trust him too much.
This season, Carvajal has been the owner of the right back position and Danilo only played when the Spanish player was absent. He had very poor performances in certain important clashes, as the one at Sevilla, scoring an own goal and having many difficulties to stop the attacks in his side. Despite the high amount of money Real Madrid paid to sign the Brazilian right back, he is Zidane’s fourth option after Carvajal, Marcelo and Nacho.
Two season ago Danilo played 24 games in La Liga and seven in Champions League, while in the last year, he participated in 17 games in the regular season, being only in three times in a Champions League line-up and playing the five games Real Madrid played this season in La Copa del Rey where they were knocked out by Celta de Vigo in the quarter finals.
Now Real Madrid must think if they want to sell Danilo or if they believe in him and give him the chance to play his third season with Real Madrid’s shirt, with the aim of showing the same level he showed in his stage at Porto.
